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50 tons per acre, over 35 years (to grow the trees to a harvestable age) with an expectation that you can capture ~25-40% of that in long term storage via pyrolizing it. The US alo…

Forests do net sequester carbon. But if you want to really sock away the carbon you harvest the trees and pyrolize it. It will give you energy (heat) you can use and elemental carb…

So a state (or municipality or anyone capable of making laws) has the ability to say, "You don't meet our local laws, take down your URL" now? This is going to be a real problem wh…

Well, really, pick your poison I suppose. We have wide belts of forests in the north that are warming and are potentially at risk for massive fires, which would make the problem si…

Maybe we should be doing something dramatic about this global warming thing before it's too late, yeah?

> CD sales surged 16% to 16.3 million units, soundly outpacing vinyl’s comparatively modest 2.4% growth. Ok, but the lack of a unit on vinyl makes it very hard to have an apples to…

You can name the brand... Häagen‑Dazs? Graeters? In any case, why would you melt and drain it? That makes zero sense. You don't have friends who would take it? Or a food bank? Or a…

I work in accessibility, yes.

And yet, if someone cannot meaningfully participate in society without their glasses, then yes, they have a disability. Polio paralysis and vision loss are both examples of disabil…

15% is from the 2011 WHO report on disability: https://www.who.int/teams/noncommunicable-diseases/sensory-f... The more recent WHO's Global report on health equity suggests 16%, as…

I work in big tech in accessibility. I guarantee you that you are incorrect.

You've got it. Who makes the decisions? Primarily the folks with the most property.

And they decide that you'll pay a percentage of what they pay each other. Which you also have no say in.

This isn't sustainable. You really want every person who is dealing with this bureaucracy to manage negotiating between their insurance and their EMS? After they've just had a sign…

Well, here it is often ass AND expensive. I'd take ass and free over ass and expensive.

You know we can have volunteer supported services be very effective, right? I volunteer to give blood. No one is paying me, and yet, someone's life is saved by that. Some folks bel…

There's still a few brands, you'll just end up paying through the nose for them.

You don't... heat it? Egg yolks change their role in ice cream when heated, increasing their emulsifying power and creating a richer ice cream.

I think that's extremely ungenerous and misses the point of the article. The article is specific in the mechanisms by which the industry has changed formulae -- adding air, gums, a…

And furthermore, ~15% of us are permanently disabled. So the percentages for temporary or situational disability rise even higher than that.

Do you use curb cuts? Closed captions? Difficulty sliders in games? An electric toothbrush? Audible crosswalk signals? All of those have significant roots in accessibility for peop…

Videogames are generally lagging WAY behind the rest of software. I've worked professionally in accessibility and in AAA game studios. There's a lot of movement in games over the p…

This is a great example of the curb cut effect -- a system designed for accessibility needs turns out to be useful in other contexts. Curb cuts were designed for people with disabi…

It made a claim, brah. If it's going to claim flowing text, then it shows that? Nah, that ain't it. It can aspire to be whatever it wants to be, don't make claims you can't back up…

Sure, I love a Forza Horizons (I'm not much for mainline Forza), but those games aren't really experiencing the same scope creep as the the rest of the industry. Call of Duty is, b…